After stumbling upon this website and seeing the photo's of some big tiger muskies, I have been biteing at the bit to hit the water. I hit the water this morning at 5:00 AM in a little 9' Pontoon "float tube type" boat. I have a customer building a home on Bankers Island, so got his permission to park my vehicle and get in the water there. After reading many posts from this forum regarding tips for finding tiger muskies, I started looking for cover near deep water. I could not find any areas with weeds / lilly pads so the only cover was boat docks, many of which are still mostly out of the water. Came up goose eggs after several hours, but finaly found a small inlet that went in about 1/4 of a mile . Here the water looked deeper and there were many large docks built out over the water, and several boats and large inflateables sitting in the water. This brought me my first experience with a tiger muskie. Was only 26 to 27 inches but it seemed like 1/3 of the fish was all mouth. Make that mouth filled with teeth. That is when I realized had forgotten to bring some kind of pliers or hook remover. Luckily I was using one of those "Storm" soft fish baits with a built in single hook. I can't imagine removeing the hook from a fish twice that size with my bare fingers.

Water was very calm with only one other boat "fishing" sighted before noon. Around noon some personal watercraft started coming out, so I went in.

I will now be looking to find what part of the lake has typical weeds / cover and where I can toss in the pontoon boat without having to kick around flippers forever to get there. I am also looking forward to learning the right techniques for bass out of Lake Tapps